On 11/03/14 07:08, Neil Greenwood wrote: > > > On 10 March 2014 16:38:47 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn <diddle...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn <diddle...@gmail.com > <mailto:diddle...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > dpkg -l | grep '^i' > > -- > > dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all packages that are installed or > otherwise known to the system (such as those packages you've > removed but not purged). To filter the list to just installed > packages we pipe the output (that's the | character which is > shift+\) to grep which checks for lines beginning (^) with the > letter "i" which is what dpkg -l outputs for installed packages. > > > On 9 March 2014 17:34, Peter Smout <smoutp...@gmail.com > <mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > sorry, I failed and top-posted :-( > > -- > Daniel Llewellyn > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > You probably want to exclude automatically installed dependencies from > the list of packages, otherwise you lose the ability of the tools to > tidy up the things you're not using for you. > > I can't remember how to do it just with dpkg - I have a script that > uses aptitude to get the list of packages for me. IIRC you want an i > in the first column and not an A in the second, so the grep would be > > grep i[^A] > > I have another script that runs through all installed packages and > tries to mark them as auto installed. Any that would cause something > to be uninstalled are written to a list. This list is then the minimum > set of packages to install to re-create the package collection. Plus > you get a system where auto remove works nicely! > > Although one thing you need to watch for is that you don't uninstall > something you still want when removing a package... > > I'll dig the scripts out later and post links to paste bin. > > > Neil > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > >
You may want dpkg -l | less so you can see all packages and scroll down, or dpkg -l > package list Paul -- -- web : http://www.zleap.net twitter : @zleap14 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam, 12th April 2014 - http://dcglug.drogon.net/torbay-pi-jam/ I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
